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    Chinese Dissident Charged With Subversion
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    Liu Xia has only been allowed to see her husband twice during his current detention, on Jan. 1 and March 20, China Human Rights Defenders said. "This use of state security charges to punish activists for merely expressing their views must stop" said Roseann Rife, the group’s deputy program director for Asia and the Pacific. Full Article at The New York Times
    This use of state security charges to punish activists for merely expressing their views must stop
    SOURCE: The New York Times 5 months ago
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Chinese Dissident Charged With Subversion
  1. This is another act of desperation by a regime that is terrified of public opinion.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 5 months ago
  2. When you jail the most prominent intellectual dissident of the country, whose writing activities had effectively been tolerated for many years, it sends an unambiguous signal of political hardening
    SOURCE: The New York Times 5 months ago

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